Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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23. oldal
... sometimes , indeed , be shewn in com- pliments as well as satire ; as in the common epigram- 66 Accept a miracle , instead of wit : See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ . " But then the mode of paying it is playful and ...
... sometimes , indeed , be shewn in com- pliments as well as satire ; as in the common epigram- 66 Accept a miracle , instead of wit : See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ . " But then the mode of paying it is playful and ...
33. oldal
... sometimes rely too much on its success , those who are chiefly annoyed by it almost always are so with reason , and cannot be too much on their guard against deserving it . Before we can laugh at a thing , its absurdity must at least be ...
... sometimes rely too much on its success , those who are chiefly annoyed by it almost always are so with reason , and cannot be too much on their guard against deserving it . Before we can laugh at a thing , its absurdity must at least be ...
34. oldal
... sometimes points the sense . Mr. Grattan's wit or eloquence ( I don't know by what name to call it ) would be nothing without this accompaniment . Speaking of some ministers whom he did not like , he said , " Their only means of ...
... sometimes points the sense . Mr. Grattan's wit or eloquence ( I don't know by what name to call it ) would be nothing without this accompaniment . Speaking of some ministers whom he did not like , he said , " Their only means of ...
35. oldal
... sometimes a species of wit , where there is an alternate combination and resolution or decomposition of the elements of sound , contrary to our usual division and classi- fication of them in ordinary speech , not unlike the sudden ...
... sometimes a species of wit , where there is an alternate combination and resolution or decomposition of the elements of sound , contrary to our usual division and classi- fication of them in ordinary speech , not unlike the sudden ...
45. oldal
... sometimes it playeth in words and phrases , taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense , or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ...
... sometimes it playeth in words and phrases , taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense , or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ...
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